Inside Tracks #20: Mick Jones & Foreigner, "I Want to Know What Love Is" 1984 w/Covers by NJ Mass Choir, Wynonna Judd (w/Jeff Beck), Kenny Chesney, Nate Ruess

It got some blowback from at least one band member, but through the years, it's garnered some fascinating covers (totaling an exact gross aka 12 dozen aka 144!), some from surprising corners.

Mar 24, 2023

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Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records, dies at age 83

'I have a song to play you, Ahmet.' I took him into the studio, and we just sat there in two chairs, and I put the song on.
Halfway through I looked over and indeed, there were tears coming out of his eyes.

Foreigner guitarist, Mick Jones, who wrote “I Want to Know What Love Is” in 1984, was previewing his demo to Atlantic Records Chairman (and founder),…

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Inside Tracks #20: Mick Jones & Foreigner, "I Want to Know What Love Is" 1984 w/Covers by NJ Mass Choir, Wynonna Judd (w/Jeff Beck), Kenny Chesney, Nate Ruess

It got some blowback from at least one band member, but through the years, it's garnered some fascinating covers (totaling an exact gross aka 12 dozen aka 144!), some from surprising corners.

'I have a song to play you, Ahmet.' I took him into the studio, and we just sat there in two chairs, and I put the song on.

Halfway through I looked over and indeed, there were tears coming out of his eyes.

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